Crossword-Solution: COPALS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COPALS | anagram | COPLAS |
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| Tree resins | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COPALS (5)
There was also a species of palm producing an oil locally much valued; there were cotton-plants growing in bushes eight or ten feet high, the cotton attached in long shreds to the ligneous stalks; and there were copals from which, pierced by the proboscis of certain insects, exudes an odorous resin that flows on to the ground and is collected by the natives.
Copals, as they are called, come from New Zealand, Mozambique, Zanzibar, West Africa, Brazil, and the Philippines.
The best of the Copals is said to be the Kauri gum, originally exuded from the Kauri pine tree of New Zealand.
The copals of Mexico, of New Zealand (popularly termed Cowace copal), and of the West African coast, are inferior kinds.
This is the oleo-resinous exudation obtained from _Daniellia thurifera_, a tree belonging to the Natural Order _LEGUMINOSÆ_, and allied to some of the species from which the West African copals are procured.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).